English 109 - Cora Agatucci
Survey of Western World Literature: Modern

ENG 109 Course Plan - Spring 2003
(Tentative--& like all plans, subject to change with advance notice)
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WK #1 ASSIGNMENTS DUE & IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES PLANNED
Tues.,
4/1		 IN-CLASS:  Introduction to ENG 109: Syllabus, Course Plan, etc.
Review what you know/ have learned about Western World Literature & history (in ENG 107, 108, &/or elsewhere)
Thurs.,
4/3		 (1) REVIEW & BRING QUESTIONS re: ENG 109 Course (handouts)
ENG 109 Web Home Page: http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng109/index.htm
(2) READ/Review in Davis:
--Denis Diderot (French, 1713-1784) & Parts 1 & 2 from "Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville" (wr. 1770-1772; pub. 1796), pp. 378-388
--Thomas Jefferson (U.S.A., 1743-1826) & “The Declaration of Independence” (1776),
pp. 521-524
--Mary Wollstonecraft (British, 1759-1797) & Introduction to A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), pp. 524-528
IN-CLASS:  Discuss Questions re: ENG 109
Presentation/Discussion:  European Enlightenment (online outline) and assigned Davis readings.  Assign Response Writing #1 - on Wks #1-2 readings

Recommended Background Reading in Davis:
"The Enlightenment: Reason and Sensibility"
Timeline, Introduction & Maps (pp. 1-18)

Student COCC E-mail/Network Account
URL: http://www.cocc.edu/plab/Computer%20Accounts/computer_acc.htm
N.B.  Students need this account to use a computer in a COCC lab or classroom

Cora's Online Reserve (password-protected/access restricted to current term students)
URL: http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci_articles/
TBA in class: Username:_______________ & Password:______________

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WK #2 ASSIGNMENTS DUE & IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES PLANNED
Tues.,
4/8		 (1) READ in Davis: Olaudah Equiano (Igbo-UK, 1747-1797) & excerpt from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa the African (1789), pp. 471-489
(2) READ in Cora's Online Reserve: Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797)
 URL: http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci_articles/hum211/equiano.htm

TBA in class: Username:__________________  Password:______________________
IN-CLASS: Continue Discussion: European Enlightenment & assigned readings
Presentation:  Age of Revolutions & European Romanticism - including Intro to Blake & Songs of Innocence and Experience
Thurs.,
4/10		 (1) Response Writing #1 (on Wks #1 & #2 readings)
(2) Read in Davis:
--“The Nineteenth Century: Romantic Self & Social Reality - Introduction,” pp. 530-547
--William Blake (British; 1757-1827), pp. 865-868
--From Songs of Experience (1794): “Introduction” & "Earth's Answer," pp. 872-873; “The Chimney Sweeper,” p. 874; “The Tyger,” pp. 874-875
IN-CLASS:  Exchange Readings & Small Group Discussion: Response Writing #1
Distribute ENG 109 Course Plan for Week #3.  Assign Seminar #1
Discuss William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience & Continue Presentation Age of Revolutions & European Romanticism

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WK #3 ASSIGNMENTS DUE & IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES PLANNED
Tues.,
4/15		 (1) Read in Davis:
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Germany; 1749-1832), pp. 547-551
--Faust (1808; 1832): “Prologue in Heaven” and Part I: pp. 551-618
(2) Review Faust Study Guide online
IN-CLASS: Discuss Goethe and Faust
Thurs.,
4/17		 (1) Read in Davis: Faust - finish Part I: pp. 618-651
(2) Seminar #1 Prep (Blake, Faust, Romanticism)
IN-CLASS:  Seminar #1 and Class Discussion: Blake, Faust, Romanticism
Distribute rest of Course Plan & Wuthering Heights Study Guide (paper handouts & online)

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WK #4 ASSIGNMENTS DUE & IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES PLANNED
Tues.,
4/22		 (1) Read in Davis: Emily Bronte (British, 1818-1848), & begin Wuthering Heights (1847), Chs. 1-9, pp. 679-730
 (2) Review Wuthering Heights Study Guide
IN-CLASS: Presentation: Romanticism and Realism . . .  in Wuthering Heights
 Return & discuss Response Writing #1 and Grade Reports to date & Directions for WebGrade;
Assign Response Writing #2 (on Wuthering Heights)
Thurs.,
4/24		 (1) Read in Davis: Wuthering Heights (1847), Chs. 10-20, pp. 731-796
IN-CLASS:  Discuss Wuthering Heights

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WK #5 ASSIGNMENTS DUE & IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES PLANNED
Tues.,
4/29		 (1) Read in Davis: Finish Wuthering Heights, Chs. 21-34, pp. 796-864
 (2) DUE:  Response Writing #2 (on Wuthering Heights)
IN-CLASS:  Exchange Reading & Response to Response Writing #2;  Finish discussion of Wuthering Heights; Assign Seminar #2 (Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Chopin)
Thurs.,
5/2		 (1) Read in Davis:
--Gustav Flaubert (French, 1821-1880), pp. 1017-1019; & “A Simple Heart” (1877), pp. 1017-1037
--Fyodor Dostoevsky (Russian,1821-1881) & "The Grand Inquisitor," from The Brothers Karamazov (1880): pp. 1038-1054
--Kate Chopin (U.S.A., 1851-1904) & “The Story of an Hour” (1894), pp. 1151-1154
(2)  DUE:  Seminar #2 Prep
IN-CLASS:  Seminar #2 (Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Chopin) & Class Discussion;
Assign Midterm Discussion Paper (handout)

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WK #6 ASSIGNMENTS DUE & IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES PLANNED
Tues.,
5/6		 (1) DUE: Outline or Draft of Midterm Discussion Paper
IN-CLASS:  Return & discuss Response Writing #2 & updated Grade Reports; 
Workshop & Discussion:  Outlines/Drafts & Questions re: Midterm Discussion Paper
Thurs.,
5/8		 (1) DUE: Midterm Discussion Paper (with Outline or Draft attached)
 *Revision Option extended to papers submitted on time; grade penalty if submitted late:
 review ENG 109 Syllabus on Course Grading
 (2) Read in Davis: William Butler Yeats (Irish, 1865-1939), & "The Second Coming" (1924), pp. 1504-1508, & 1511-1512
IN-CLASS:  Presentation:  Conrad's Heart of Darkness & Early Modernism [online outline]; Distribute Heart of Darkness Study Guide
Recommended Background:  "The 20th Century: The Modern Age & Emerging World Culture" (Davis pp. 1345-1363)

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WK #7 ASSIGNMENTS DUE & IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES PLANNED
Tues.,
5/13		 (1) Read in Davis: Joseph Conrad (Polish-British, 1857-1924) & begin Heart of Darkness (1899; 1902): Part I, pp. 1364-1387.
(2) Review Heart of Darkness Study Guide
IN-CLASS:  Discuss Conrad & Heart of Darkness; In Class Video clip from Apocalypse Now!
Thurs.,
5/15		 (1) Read in Davis: Heart of Darkness, Parts II & III: pp. 1387-1421
IN-CLASS: Continue discussion of Heart of Darkness

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WK #8 ASSIGNMENTS DUE & IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES PLANNED
Tues.,
5/20		 (1) Read in Davis: Chinua Achebe (Igbo-Nigerian, b. 1930), pp. 1421-1424; & begin Things Fall Apart
(2) Read in Cora's Online Reserve:  Achebe, Chinua.  "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness." Rpt. The Massachusetts Review 18.4 (Winter 1977): 782-94.  Rpt. Novels for Students, Vol. 2.  Gale Literature Resource Center [Online Subscription Database]. The Gale Group-Thomson Learning, 2003. http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci_articles/hum211/achebeonconrad.htm
IN-CLASS:  Return & discuss graded Midterm Discussion Papers & Revision Option;
Introduction to Achebe; Distribute Things Fall Apart Study Guide; Assign Seminar #3 (on Conrad & Achebe)
Thurs.,
5/22		 (1) Read in Davis: Things Fall Apart (1958): Part I, pp. 1425-1474
(2) Review Things Fall Apart Study Guide
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/achebTFA.htm
(3) DUE:  Seminar #3 Prep (written Notes)
IN-CLASS: Seminar #3 (on Conrad & Achebe) & Class Discussion: Things Fall Apart Part I (and summarize Parts II & III); In-Class Viewing: Chinua Achebe interview from Bill Moyers’ World of Ideas

Recommended: Review Example Student Midterm Discussion Papers
 URL: http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng109/studentmidterms.htm

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WK #9 ASSIGNMENTS DUE & IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES PLANNED

Mon. 5/26: Memorial Day Holiday - College Closed
Tues.,
5/27		 (1) Read in Davis:
--Virginia Woolf (British, 1882-1941) & [Shakespeare’s Sister] excerpt from A Room of One’s Own (based on lecture series given in 1928) pp. 1570-1582
--Anna Akhmatova (Russian, 1889-1966); & Requiem (wr. 1935-1940), pp. 1630-1633, & 1635-1641
--Elie Wiesel (Romanian-Hungarian, b. 1928) & "The Death of My Father," from Legends of Our Time (1968): pp. 1824-1830
IN-CLASS:   Presentation: The 20th Century: World War II & Its Aftermath; Discuss Woolf, Akhmatova, Wiesel
Thurs.,
5/29		 (1) Read in Davis:
--Hiroko Takenishi (Japan, b. 1929); & "The Rite" (1963), pp. 1889-1908
--Franz Kafka (Czech/German, 1883-1924) & “The Metamorphosis” (1915; 1948), pp. 1582-1613
Recommended: from Cora's Online Reserve (password protected):
Critical Views on Kafka's "The Metamorphosis"
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci_articles/kafkaviews.htm
IN-CLASS:  Discuss Takenishi & Kafka; (View Nabokov on Kafka's "Metamorphosis" if time?)
Assign Final Discussion Paper & Seminar #4 (Prep. for Final Discussion Paper)

Final Directions/Topics: http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/eng109/final.htm John Lye’s Online Handouts:
 The Grounds of Evaluation of Fiction
 URL: http://www.brocku.ca/english/courses/1F95/evalfictn.html
 Depth, Complexity, Quality
 URL: http://www.brocku.ca/english/courses/1F95/depth-etc.html
 On the Uses of Studying Literature
 URL: http://www.brocku.ca/english/jlye/uses.html

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WK #10 ASSIGNMENTS DUE & IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES PLANNED
Tues.,
6/3		 (1) Read in Davis:
--Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Columbia, b. 1928), & “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” (1971), pp. 1863-1869
--Milan Kundera (Czech, b. 1929), pp. 1876-1878; & “The Hitchhiking Game” (1974), pp. 1878-1889
--Pablo Neruda (Chile, 1904-1973), pp. 1674-1677
Recommended: from Cora's Online Reserve (password protected):
Critical Views on Garcia Marquez's "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci_articles/marquezviews.htm
IN-CLASS:  Class canceled because Cora was ill.

(We'll fit the following activities  in on June 5 & June 9 as time allows):  
Discuss Kafka's Heirs: Garcia Marquez & Kundera;
In-Class listening: Selected Poems by Neruda (password-protected Cora's online reserve):URL: http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci_articles/neruda.htm
Thurs.,
6/5		 (1) DUE:  Seminar #4 Prep
 (2) DUE:  Any late/make-up, extra credit work, Optional Revisions of Midterm Discussion Paper (original graded version & Cora's evaluation sheet must be attached)
IN-CLASS:  Seminar #4 (Prep for Final Project Paper) & discuss questions re: Final Project;
View clip from Il Postino / The Postman, (Italian-French prod., 1995; dir. Michael Radford)

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FINALS WEEK

Final Meeting: MON., JUNE 9,
3:15-5:15 p.m., DES 1
  1. DUE: Detailed Outline or Preliminary Draft of Final Project
  2. In-Class Workshop (Outlines/Drafts of Final Projects)
  3. Distribute Grade Reports to date
By Thurs, June 12, 12 noon:
Leave in Cora's Mailbox (Humanities Dept. Office, 2nd floor Modoc) or slide under Cora’s office door, Deschutes 14
  1. DUE: FINAL PROJECT (with detailed outline or preliminary draft attached)

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